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Moving a Project
I finished a project for a client on my home system. It’s a mac dual core g5 with 2 500gb harddrives internal. One drive is my media drive only. As I don’t want to be associated with this project any more (too much head ache) I offered to put all the associated media files and avid files on an external disk so the next editor when they want revisions can copy the files over and update his/her db files to work on it.
I originally asked for a 7200rpm firewire drive, and received a 5400rpm USB 2.0 drive.To make the stuff cross platform compatible I kept the drive formatted in FAT32. Then I printed out list of files from the media tool and manually selected all 400+ files and copied them into a seperate folder. Next, I tried to copy them over to the external usb drive. I keep getting an Error -1309 from OS X, which as far as I can tell has to do with a file size limit of 4GBs on the FAT32 file system.
Can anyone offer a better way to get all these files onto this external drive? Is there a way I could use the consolidate feature in Avid to do this for me? And trust it to capture ALL of the media, not just referenced media from the sequence?
Need help to free up space before my next project!!
Thanks in advance.
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First, format that drive to NTFS. Then, transcode (but don’t change the resolution of) the footage you want to the drive. Put the project file in a top level folder, and your done.
Jon
“Jamming our heads full of figures and angles
And telling us stuff that we already know”Willie The Wandering Gypsy & Me
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